Upon the schools falls in great measure the responsibility of training and fitting the nation for service. To support the schools in fulfilling this tremendous duty is the purpose of the two following books. OUR SCHOOLS IN WAR TIME--AND AFTER By ARTHUR D. DEAN, Professor of Vocational Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Supervising Officer, Bureau of Vocational Training, New York State Military Training Commission. 335 pages, $1.25. A book to challenge the spirit of every loyal American. It describes the war work being done by schools in this country and others, and gives practical suggestions for promoting the work in this country. Conservation of food and other lessons in thrift, vocational education, Red Cross and other community work, and reëducation of the disabled are only a few of the important topics emphasized. Eight inserts of photographic illustrations concretely visualize the subject for the reader. FOOD PROBLEMS By A. N. FARMER, Superintendent of Schools, Evanston, Ill., and JANET R. HUNTINGTON, State Department of Public Instruction, Wis. 27 cents, list price, or 20 cents, net, to boards of education, teachers, and schools; carriage extra. This book aims to introduce lessons of thrift into the home by utilizing the enormous influence of the schools upon national thought and habit. It embodies in arithmetical problems of the most practical nature principles upheld by the Food Administration. Where the book has been studied it has been found to fulfill a two-fold purpose: pupils have worked with greater energy and good will, and both the children and their parents have attacked with more determination the most important, the underlying, problem--food conservation. To insure for this book the immediate and wide distribution that it merits, Ginn and Company are offering it at an unusually low price. GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS INDUSTRIAL ARTS IN THE SCHOOL EXAMPLES OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION By FRANK MITCHELL LEAVITT, The University of Chicago. 330 pages, $1.25 The movement for industrial education is a part of a recent great educational advance. This volume discusses the history and practice of the movement to bring about universal and appropriate education, especially in its relation to existing social, economic, and educational institutions. The author outlines a constructive plan for organization of this type of education by public schools and gives many helpful suggestions for bringing such organization into vital relation with the present system. Full descriptions of existing classes and schools serve as examples to illustrate the general principles of their classification. FINE AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS By WALTER SARGENT, The University of Chicago. 132 pages, illustrated, 75 cents